Notices by Konstantin Weddige (weddige@gruene.social)

@mekkaokereke it's definitely the starter packs; what made my experience here on Mastodon great from the start was that I imported lists of dozens of accounts of people I didn't know, but who were posting about topics that I was interested in.

I figured I'll get to know them eventually and can always unfollow. I effectively built my own starter pack and it was a blaze.

Mastodon started to be fun, as soon as I followed about 300 people and most new users never get to that.

Have you ever wondered what it means when you get an email that is encrypted but not signed? At the very least, it's better than being completely unencrypted, isn't it?

It turns out that's not necessarily the case. I've looked at S/MIME and found that it is possible to construct messages that, when sent to multiple recipients, are decrypted into completely different messages:

https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/salamander-mime/

#SMIME #SalamanderMIME #infosec

@GossiTheDog isn't the idea of giving employees shares to make them more invested in the success of the company? They should have given you at least $5!

@rooster Giving up on politics is handing over power to those who want to dismantle democracy. Build communities, but use them to give people hope that not all is lost and encourage them to keep fighting.

Trump may go unpunished, but that doesn't mean he will seize power, and that the Constitution can't be amended to prevent this from repeating in the future.

There is always hope until you give it up.

@dansup @pixelfed nothing here yet...

@BashStKid @johncarlosbaez same reason many politicians have to stay: the journalists.

Mastodon is great if you want to have meaningful discussions. But if you hope that someone will read your paper or statement and quote it in the news, other platforms are (still) better. For wider adoption, Mastodon also needs to serve as a tool for self-promotion.

@larkim @EDPS the instances will be shut down, but @EU_Commission will stay in the Fediverse: https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112337768009498103

Welcome to another edition of "Is this phishing?"

Assume the email is in principle plausible and the transaction ID exists. What is the worst that can happen if you press send?

#phishing

If your answer was "everything", you were right. Because the email your accountant would receive wouldn't look anything like the one you forwarded.

This is due to something I call #KoboldLetters. By cleverly (mis)using CSS, attackers can display completely different emails to different recipients.

The problems with HTML and CSS in emails have been known for a long time, but the security implications have usually been underestimated or actively downplayed. That's why I wrote an article explaining how HTML emails can be used to deceive recipients into becoming part of an sophisticated #phishing attack.

https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/

Die Strategie der #FDP ausverhandelte Kompromisse in letzter Sekunde platzen zu lassen, ist einer Partei in Regierungsverantwortung nicht würdig!

@taatm @cadenza @mekkaokereke I still can't wrap my head around at-will employment. If it's more difficult to terminate a gym membership than an employee, there is something fundamentally wrong.